The file

Cory Booker

Democratic · U.S. Senator, New Jersey · New Jersey · Spectrum score -43

Senate · 2026 ballot ·

Cory Booker is U.S. Senator, New Jersey in New Jersey. Political positions and ideology score -43 (Left). Booker is sold as the hug.

College: Stanford University, B.A. 1991, M.A. 1992 · Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), 1994 · Yale Law School, J.D. 1997
Spouse: Unmarried
Children: None on the public record
Résumé: U.S. Senator · New Jersey · 2013–
Mayor · Newark, New Jersey · 2006–2013
Newark City Council · 1998–2002

Net worth: $2.4M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $200K
2026 raised: $10.5M
Years in office: 28

Where Cory stands on the spectrum

Cory Booker scores -43 on Spectrum’s left–right line (left), left of center on the economy and progressive on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite -43 · Left · economic -53 · social -46 · authoritarian -23

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Booker is sold as the hug. The file is a Newark operator whose national money is pharma-state plus Hollywood-adjacent, and whose city years included donor fights that did not survive the TED-talk edit.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$2.4M

+1100% since taking office

Senate disclosure midpoint, 2024

Before office$200K

Now$2.4M

Newark mayor years were not lucrative. Book, dating-app fame, and a 2020 presidential leftover keep the household comfortable, not wealthy.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $10.5M
Cash on hand: $4.8M

Top industries

Lawyers
Pharma (NJ)
Unions
Small-dollar

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Newark to Senate. Book and leftover 2020. Funds.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$100K–$500K
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$30K–$150K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$100K–$500K
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$30K–$150K

Sum of ranges $130K–$650K · midpoint $390K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

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Live wire

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Conflicts

New Jersey pharma-and-finance money vs a vegan-progressivism brand.
Newark donor controversies from the mayor years that national fans skipped.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: -53
Social: -46
Authoritarian: -23
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending-50
Higher taxes on high earners, larger public budget
Health care-60
Public or single-payer coverage as a right
Climate & energy-56
Aggressive climate rules and fossil-fuel phase-down
Business regulation-48
Stronger antitrust, labor, and consumer rules
Labor & wages-52
Unions, higher minimum wage, worker power
Immigration-40
A broader legal path, less interior enforcement
Abortion-72
Legal access, opposed to bans
Guns-54
Licensing, assault-weapon limits, red-flag laws
Crime & policing-34
Reform, diversion, less incarceration
Schools & speech-48
Public-school investment, DEI frameworks
Defense & alliances-14
Diplomacy-first, smaller overseas footprint
Civil liberties-28
Privacy, speech, limits on surveillance and bans

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): -0.38

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

DW-NOMINATE
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.